About FUNraiser

It All Started When We Drove a Tiny Car from London to Mongolia...

FUNraiser was created because we (Kenneth, Young, and Graham) needed a way to raise money for a trip of a lifetime; the Mongol Rally. Fundraising has always felt like a chore both to the givers and the receivers. We found that traditional fundraising can result in annoying overlooked emails and outreach for great charities that our friends and family would otherwise love to donate to and be a part of. This can lead to many fundraisers paying their own charity donations out of pocket just to avoid uncomfortable conversations about money.

Having FUN while Raising Funds!

We wanted a fundraising process that was… well just plain enjoyable. Why shouldn’t raising money for important causes be fun? Our goal was to create a platform that brings the fundraiser and the donor closer together. Having no access to this in our own fundraising experience, we decided to build it.

FUNraiser allows anyone who is interested in a cause to create objectives, challenges or goals for the fundraiser or fundraising team to perform. We call them Challenges, and these events allow the donor to become a part of the adventure by creating inspiring, funny, educational or just plain beautiful experiences created by the fundraiser and shared with donor as they are completed.

Unleashing Our Inner Heroes...

The donor can also become the designer of missions, which personally encourage them to become a part of the experience and egg fundraisers on. (For our personal funraising journey, our donors created missions like eating goat’s eyeballs, Turkish olive oil wrestling, and sending pictures of remote places -- reflecting our values and sense of humor.)

About Us

young

Hi my name is Hyun Young Jung, yeah try to say that three times in a row. I lived in the most dangerous parts of the world. From downtown LA, Brooklyn NY to San Bruno CA- yup that’s right. I’ll let you in on a dirty little secret San Franciscans don’t want anyone to know, SFO airport is not located in San Francisco but in the city of San Bruno!
We’re raising money for two wonderful organizations, so please help us on a journey as I travel the world’s most dangerous places with my ball-and-chain and my best mate.
London! yeah that’s on our list, some say they have the worst food ever! Brussels, yep that too is on our list, and I am looking forward to kicking Jean Claude Van Damme’s ass, he still owes me $20 from his movie “Double Team”!
Check out our link of all the dangerous places we’re going to trek to, and give us some suggestions! Cheers!

kenneth

Kenneth is an artist whose social conscious artworks have been exhibited internationally. Born and raised in Hong Kong, educated in San Francisco and currently lives in Brooklyn, his lifelong passion is to visit as many natural wonders as he can.
Besides making arts, he had been working as the fitting model for GAP Japan for almost 13 years. His other clients include Ralph Lauren, Rag n' Bone, LL Bean and Banana Republic Japan.
Kenneth is also the co-founder of FUNraiser, a fundraising platform and CheapAssFood, a guide of cheap eats in New York City.
On his leisure times, Kenneth enjoys pairing wines with music at the boutique wine store he co-owned with his awesome wife, getting tattooed, lending money on Kiva.org, listening to old vinyl jazz records, collecting patches from National Parks and being bossed around by his rescued pit-bull named Wiki.

graham

An explorer and creator from a young age, Graham is an entrepreneur inspired by the world’s accelerating interconnectedness. He has cofounded and launched FUNraiser (a platform for crowdsourcing fundraising), Syfto (creating the worlds first style genome project), and dropandgoauto.com (bringing the cloud to auto repair).
He developed his unique approach to life working as a User Experience consultant for 10 years while travelling the world in search of the perfect wave. Hyun Young Jung once called Graham “the cleverest person I have ever known”. While on the road, graham likes to eat cheap ass street food.